Content warning: This article contains numerous examples of bigoted rhetoric. Users on Reddit’s “r/conspiracy” forum have repeatedly and openly posted anti-LGBTQ content for years without pushback, despite the platform’s rules prohibiting “hate based on identity or vulnerability” and anti-LGBTQ “groomer” rhetoric. Reddit has a history of taking action against other subreddits that have violated those rules. A Media Matters review of r/conspiracy since May 2020 found a widespread pattern of anti-LGBTQ hate, which includes accusing the LGBTQ community of grooming, having “mental illness,” and associating with pedophilia.
  • magnetosphere
    6•9 months ago

    He thinks he’ll be a slave owner? I’d never heard that before, but I’m not surprised one bit.

    • @empireOfLoveOPEnglish
      15•9 months ago

      Yup.

      Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”

      • Tammo-Korsai
        10•9 months ago

        Sounds like a terrible case of Main Character Syndrome. People don’t survive an apocalypse just because they think they’re important.

        • @empireOfLoveOPEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          Spez would be the first one to die as soon as the supply chain for chicken nuggets collapsed

          “Natural leader” my ass

          • Tammo-Korsai
            2•9 months ago

            And he would have a heart attack upon learning that stocks and money will become worthless.

      • harmonea
        10•9 months ago

        I gotta say, I thought your first comment was some kind of madly wild, baseless, bitter accusation stemming from heavy disillusionment with reddit and assumption that spez must surely represent the worst of us.

        The fact that you actually have a source for that madness and interpreted that source accurately is the most mindblowing thing I’ve seen in a while. That really is quite an article.

        • @empireOfLoveOPEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          You and me both chief. When I first heard it I also did a hard double take.
          The affluenza class really do live in a completely different world than us. To the point where their reality sounds like absolute absurdity to us “normal people”.

          I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

        • @empireOfLoveOPEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          More of an egotistical airhead. At least dorks can sometimes be cute if they’re nice- Spez is just stupid from being fed from too many silver spoons.